A New Dating Website Puts Female Users In Charge of Pursuing

Check this out. A new dating site called HerWay.com puts the Sadie Hawkins spin on online dating—women search for men, and your profile remains hidden until you decide to initiate contact. Awesome! No stalkers!

HerWay.com was launched publicly on Tuesday, but there are tons of guys on there already (I looked, of course). You can click on categories of people, such as members with your compatible astrological signs, or members who are new to the site. You can also search with very detailed parameters. Technically, you could search for 6'3", chain-smoking Buddhist men working in aerospace and living 1 mile from your house. I don't know if there are any chain-smoking Buddhists in your area, but you can at least try to be superpicky and unrealistic.

Just for kicks, I did a very specific search and accidentally pulled up a guy who not only doesn't drink alcohol, but his wedding ring was showing in his profile photo—hahahaha! Like, it was in the foreground of the photo. The search continues.

It's fun on HerWay.com. In my experience, the thing about Match was, you could search for men, but they would rarely write you back because they generally like to chase. So you were left with all the lame winkers or the poor spellers who cluttered up your inbox. HerWay takes away their chasing abilities—and the men on this site know that you have to make the move, so suddenly it's acceptable! Also, it allows you to put yourself in front of people who might not have seen you on other sites because, say, like me, you're 31 and they were searching for women ages 25-30. Well, now they're not able to search at all!

What I like especially is that, unlike with Match or eHarms, you can search for men living as little as 1 mile away. That may seem ridiculous in other cities, but in NYC, a distance of 5 miles could mean 40 minutes of commuting. And that's when even good-looking people start to look unattractive.

Now, normally I don't love making the first move—and I do wonder if the site is full of lazy, beta males—but really, who in my town (nay, neighborhood!) is anything but Type A Crazy? ;)

Final note: I was able to start searching right away without feeling pressure to complete my profile (in other words, get all dolled up and look my best for the men). If I see someone I want to contact, sure, I'll perfect and polish my profile, but for now, I basically have the pajama-clad, unshaven-legs of profiles. Sweet.

What do you think of this idea? Kinda genius, right? Will you sign up?